| Sickling does Arts! |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|02:15 pm] |
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Another day, another dollar not earned.
I called in this morning, my voice a wreck again, and told them I'd be taking another day off.
My boss inquired whether or not I had a fever. I told him that, while I did have a mildly raised temperature, I did not, actually. no.
Well, then, couldn't I come in and do trainings anyway?
The problem here, however, is not the fever. The fever is a non-issue. I have no fever.
The problem is the insane amount of time I spend sleeping the day away.
Awake now again, though, and busily doodling Exalted things. I had an interesting scene for the Polished Ivory setting, but I haven't gotten passed the 'lay-out of the page' thing yet, because I realised that beyond 'he's got tattoos, wears a cloak and might be naked save for that' I realised I couldn't quite remember what Sea looked like.
I mean, I knew he was probably coloured, cause he talks all funny (hah, racial stereotypig. XD Who'd have thunk it) but other than that..
So I've been scrounging through Daniel's posts. Now I know he's dark-skinned, has silver tattoos, and wears a cowl and a cloak!
I'll have to reread it, but I can't find any indication that he does, actually, wear anything else. This amuses me, and I may have to draw a streaking Sea, BECAUSE I CAN. I probably won't, though.
Too much effort.
Daniel said he had braids, that hung to his shoulders, but I'm not sure if he means actual braids or the braids you generally find on Jamaicans. Stereotyping, yay! :D So I'm going with those. Also, I'll have to make them black, cause I can't find any indication that they're, you know, sterling silver or anything.
Although, in this one doodle, I gave him a head full of curls - because I can - and a headband. Still working on the face composition. Right now, his face looks kind of gaunt and his eyes sort of slanted in an animal kind of way, but then, he's supposedly quite tall, if nothing else.
Still playing there.
I'm considering adding earrings, but I suppose I should just pester Daniel for more of these pesky details.
I was linked a picture once of a woman who shared Dancer's build, so I know she's short - hah, tiny XD - and she had hair like that as well, I believe..
HEY TRACY! Did you give me your description for Dancer yet? I can probably get away with not drawing a whole lot of her, cover most of her with Sea's arms, but - I hate this laptop, it keeps jumping the cursor to further on up the page, because I accidentally touch the trackpad. Boo trackpad - some information might be nice.
Describe her dresses to me, and her armlets/rings if she has 'em, would you? Thank you, darling. :D
.. Actually, just describe her to me. XD I've been up for a while, so I'm too tired to go scrounge through Daniel's lj again for descriptions of Dancer.
Sea first!
*erases the part that makes his face look too effeminate* |
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| Speaking of Managerial Styles |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|02:46 pm] |
Oh, that reminds me! I posted about my direct boss the other day, and his apparent lack of faith in people. We were going to start Monday with him sitting next to me and keeping a strict eye on what I was doing right and where I was going wrong.
I know from experience he's a little distracting to have next to you because he makes sounds and you can never be sure they were for you or for the people around you and.. So I wasn't sure this was the bestest plan ever, but, you know, I'm up for giving it a go if he thinks this will actually help me get my average calling time down. Besides, showing myself willing to be helped probably looks good on my record, too.
Which is why I thought it funny when he wasn't there on Monday. But then I figured, well, maybe he has the late shift. But by the time late-shift came around, he still wasn't there.
The team is split up under immediate bosses, and each immediate boss takes care of a group, so when one of the others came up and asked me to come along for a moment, I thought I'd done something else they didn't approve of. I have a track record by now, it wouldn't surprise me.
Well, she said, since my immediate boss wasn't here right now, she'd take over for him. We spoke, briefly, and she gave me a check-list. I've been working with that since, and I'm alternating my calling times to see how well I do and if I can call longer. I seem to be improving there, as well.
And that was that! I told her that was surprising. Why so, she asked. Well, my other immediate boss generally takes up to half an hour to do these talks. I didn't quite understand the smile she used because I wasn't sure what it meant, but..
A couple of days later or later that same day, even, an email was circulated with the new company structure of our department detailed therein. No sign of my immediate boss. "As you can see, he is no longer with us, but we have faith in the new set-up, blah blah blah blah."
Ah hah.
Rumour has it the department head flipped his shit at him for not doing his job. We did know our vacation-time-planner woman had found another job in our company, and we wonder who's taking over with that, because it's always been extremely difficult to plan vacations and whatnot, but apparently, the department head flipped his shit at her, too.
So, yeah! New structure.
I'll see how it goes. :) |
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| Surprise Metal Concert! (A New Dawn/Battlelore) |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|12:48 am] |
It seems the old metal adage is still true.
Great t-shirt, lousy live.
I was at work! And I was intending to go home, buy some flowers for my mom (it's her birthday this weekend) and get online to do some serious grinding between Imre and Mool.
However, I then got invited to a metal concert in a rock temple somewhere. This colleague I know at work is also a metal-fan and told me they had a ticket left over. The person actually going wasn't going to make it. Dudes. I can never pinpoint what, exactly, makes me say 'sure, why not' but I did.
Say 'sure, why not', that is.
I finished my shift, bought a ticket to the middle of fucking nowhere - because that's where it was being held - and bailed halfway through the trip there to get picked up there instead because that'd be easier. Half of the trainticket was completely superfluous. XD THANKS FOR THE NOTIFICATION.
Anyway, we managed to make our way there - two women in full dress gown, a dude in casual wear, and me, in a PINK TURTLE-NECK SWEATER. Awesome.
I walked in, liked the shirt, got the M version of it and chilled through what I felt was a decent and acceptable show by what was apparently not the act whose t-shirt I'd gotten.
A New Dawn played first. One song was incredibly boring in that it only had four lines repeated AD NAUSEUM, but they had some interesting beats. The grunting guitarist was making weird ass faces at the microphone, and I couldn't understand him most of the time, but they were okay.
The sound technician, however, was having a really rotten day.
But fear not, it got worse.
Half the time during Battlelore's show, the female vocalist wasn't heard above the background noise. The music was on way too loud, and it was burring. You know what I mean. When you hear more and better when you block the sound than when you don't, the sound technician IS DOING IT WRONG.
As a result, I have no idea if I like this band. Occasionally, something happened that sounded neat. But whether that was by accident or design..
No clue.
Apologies, again, to Baeraad, because we were going to go WoW, and I bailed on him. <3 |
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| Yoga |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
So yesterday, I found a small book, by someone called Zeer, about doing yoga at your work. It has a number of short practices you can do throughout the day. It's actually my sister's, but she's moved out of the house and occasionally, I find stuff lying about.
I always enjoy reading through instructional texts like these.
Part of me really enjoys learning new things.
So part of me is inevitably frustrated when I run into things I already DO. XD I don't know, it seems like such a waste, you know? XD I suppose it's kind of cool, too, considering, but.. but..
.. but I like input.. :emo: |
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| Differences in Managerial Styles |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|09:49 pm] |
So at work, I had another brief chat with the dude directly above me. He's not technically my manager, I think, but we have weird ass fuck names for everybody's actual position. I think our team-leader actually counts as our manager..
Anyway, the guy directly beneath that, and above the rest of the agents? Or at least, part of them, anyway? That guy.
He has weekly chats with his agents and stuff each week on how well they're doing and all.
I don't mind that he has a vision of being THE BEST OF THE BEST. I don't even mind that he wants me on his team (or subdivision with which he is going to be the best, because hey, that probably means I can't be too shabby at what I do, right?) but I do kind of mind his depressing view on the entire Dutch team.
That, or he just doesn't comprehend other ways of motivating people, maybe.
You know what his number one reason for reaching all the goals is? It's not so that you're a shining beacon of hope and justice and all that is right in the world of Customer Satisfaction, noooo.. It's so other people on the Dutch team can't go "But [Ashti] doesn't reach those goals, and gets off easy, then I get to do 'x' and 'y' too!" at him.
Is it really that hard to not think badly of other people?
Apparently, it is.
In the Netherlands, we have a saying. "Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten." Loosely translated that means the innkeeper trusts his guests as he knows himself to be.
There's probably an English equivalent for it, but I can't help but wonder if he's like that, then. On the bright side, this probably means I'm not, which fills me with some small sense of satisfaction, for some reason..
Oh! Oh! And another thing! :D When I am not taking calls, I have hereby been charged not to participate in our tech chat. Because it annoys the QA's when I raise 'unnecessary questions.'
Heaven forbid I get something clarified and the newbies learn something as well. I mean, I can understand them not wanting the newblets learning bad information, but when I check the tech chat now, there are often questions that just don't get answered within a reasonable amount of time.
And me giving out FALSE information (though, of course, not on PURPOSE) at least garners some REACTION.
So which is worse, I'm left to wonder?
Anyhew, I find that I shake my head at a lot of things that go on at work. But whatever. I'm going to let them, and then take a left at the end of my contract year. :3 |
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| We're starting at.. six? Or four? |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|02:16 pm] |
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Because I've been drafted to assist with some cleaning, and I should be back around five, so I'll hop in then. o: |
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| Dude, Ka-chan |
[Oct. 7th, 2009|11:11 pm] |
If you've got what Bochan has, you might want to have a doctor check you over.
Her mom made her go to the doctor's office and she got prescribed some anti-biotics or something for a bacterial infection of the lungs.
So.
Um.
Yeah.
She's fine. Sleeps a lot, tired a lot, doesn't eat a lot, and can't do all that much right now, but she's got the medicine and she'll be fine.
But feel free to KEEP AN EYE ON THAT, THERE. XD |
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| Migraines and Photophobia-Induced Regurgitation Is Not Fun. |
[Oct. 6th, 2009|01:09 pm] |
These? Are not supposed to be contagious, Bochan! I do not appreciate receiving one. :P
So what I'm going to do is - now that I'm home from work way, way, waaay early - is get a drink, take a bath, and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. |
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| METALFESTIVAAAAAAAAAAAAA~L |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|07:25 pm] |
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| | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY | ] |
So this weekend I'd gone MIA because there was a metalfest in a town about five towns down the road. It was totally close by and everything! I thought it was somewhere in the middle of nowhere from what my friends had told me, but then they were all "It's in B'rlo."
I went "..... Dude. That's.. like.. that's like here."
( Cut for exTREME length. )
AND NOW I AM BORED OF WRITING AND SHALL WRITE NO MORE OF THIS RIGHT NOW. |
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| Hey Mish! |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|05:16 pm] |
You have me blocked on your AIM. XD
So I can't tell you that you're not going to see me before way late tonight (or you for that matter, Daniel o: ) because I'm going to go see Inglourious Bastards tonight.
Apparently, they insist on the double 'ou' in the title..
I'll be home late, but I'll be online then, if nothing else!Bochan/Ka-chan! YOU'RE COMING OVER TO VISIT, YAY!
But you failed to inform me whether or not you were sleeping over, so, feel free to tell me that NOW.. XD I'll call you both later tonight as well but if you see this, feel free to text-message me as well, hehe.
Party time this weekend!
I'm just going to assume that you are staying, by the way, which means I'm going to be busy cleaning tomorrow morning. XD;
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| Weekend plans! |
[Sep. 11th, 2009|05:41 pm] |
Packing my bag!
Not gonna be back till Sunday afternoon!
CATCH YOU LATER, DUDES. I'm off to practice my tunes!
(Band practice weekend thing.)
Cause we's be goin' on to dem Nationals dar.
Or, that's the plan, anyway.
Luck to us! |
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| Plans for the day! |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|10:32 am] |
Never mind that I only made them when I woke up this morning!
1) Go to the city.
2) Find a surprise gift for someone.
3) BUY A KITE.
4) Return and help out with painting my brother's floor!
5) Go home, eat and shower and be ready at SEVEN.
6) Get picked up to go on to Bochan's!
7) Wait for tomorrow so we can go to the beach! |
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| Things I already told you |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|10:23 pm] |
I made the IT department so happy today that I didn't have to pay for my drink! o:
( Not that they're all that expensive.. XD )
Yay, free drink! 8D
More happened, among which was me deciding to write Terry Pratchett a thank you note, but other than that, very little actually worth mentioning. Thank you again for buying it for me, Daniel! :D
OH. AND IF YOU'RE READING THIS AND KNOW ME, CHANCES ARE, I LOVE YOU.
Just so you know.
All in all, this day is looking up from the grouchy mood I was in this morning.
Called the doctor for that referral, I did. Says he, 'well, there's progress, ain't there? Wait till Monday.' Bloody hell! I could have prescribed me rest until infinity, too! I needto get my hands on that damned book. D< Obviously, my doctor's usefulness is somewhat limited when I can't fucking complain for myself. D: |
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| Work! |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|09:21 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | doc, throat, work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Great Big Sea - Fast As I Can | ] |
I went to the doctor's this morning! I had the other doctor instead. Passed him the list of 'current symptoms', which he put next to the previously documented ones.
Since there does appear to be progress in my case, he advised to keep an eye on it till Thursdays, and to drink coughing.. stuff.. to smoothe my throat some more, but to call back if it remained the same or did not improve significantly in these four days, because then I'll get a referral to the hospital.
It's possible there's something on my vocal chords (I dunno the words in English - poliep, or oedeem or whatever), which they'll have to look at in the hospital because the doctors don't have the machine or whatever required to look further down the throat at their practice.
I knew that. The last doctor'd already told me that. >V
Contacted work, because I'm not, technically, sick anymore (no fever no more, after all), and asked if there was shit I could do that didn't require talking. They said 'sure, come on by, there's always stuff to do.' That was Martin - my direct coach/manager type person - and I don't like him, but mom assures me he sounded delighted. *snerks* I guess we'll see.
I have the late shift today, so that means leaving in thirty-five minutes. I suspect I won't have access to any instant messengers while I'm there. Doubt I'll be put behind a computer. But again, I guess we'll see.
Also called the Arbo (Dutch bureau for sick working people or something) who advised me to contact work for other stuff to do - way to be timely, people, I'd just done that - because I could probably answer mails or something - HAH? ANSWER MAILS? What're they, nuts? We don't do that where I work - but whatever.
I get to call them back on Wednesday again for an update.
TL;DR
I guess we'll see. In the mean-time, I'm going to bug the people at work. |
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| Exalted Doodlets. |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|12:35 pm] |
Hmz.
They're coming out a lot more cartoony than I anticipated. I mean, that drawing I did of Prince Shore was faintly more realistic, but looking at what I managed so far with Cloak and Eyes.. XD;; I'm not sure I like it..
But it might grow on me yet. I blame Billious.
Oh! And to make it easy on myself! If you have a description of your character, dump it in my comments. Then I don't have to go hunting for them only to find they're non-existent (*pointed look in a certain person's direction*) as in some cases.
Now, I know Ali's a pirate, so I'll probably borrow some Jack Sparrow for her, but what of the others? You want art? Give me descriptions*! 8D
Sizes are also welcome. o:
Oh, and Mishie and Kyo, in your cases, I'd like a description of your weapons, too. I can make bad-ass swords, certainly, and flame-throwers, but if you have specifics - list them.
Uistic, you're not technically in this campaign, but if you dump a description, I may have an amusing idea for your 'fighting - whilst half-naked' dude, too.
Onwards, my fellow roleplayers, for I'm in the mood to draw right now! ATTEND ME AND I MIGHT MAKE YOU PRETTIES. 8D
*Supporting members will be included, if listed. o: .. and.. if.. I can manage to do them justice. XD But this does mean I will draw members of the Fang, for instance, if presented with descriptions of them, too. 8)
( If you want to do me a humongous favour, use the following. o: )
You were warned! >D
For best results, poke me when I'm online and in possession of paper and a pencil. Both Prince Shore and Ali were created this way, and while Ali looks like an African American (with freckles) right now (first draft, people! XD), this does appear to be my favoured approach. It means I can ask you questions that obviously did not make it in the list.
I also find it amusing to note that both Ali and Prince Shore came about more realistic looking than Cloak or Eyes did.. XD |
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| Who knew choking was this tiresome? |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|12:09 pm] |
I think that counts as choking, anyway.
I'm on anti-biotics! For my throat! As I think I mentioned. Either way, I'm o the last leg of the treatment, and I can whisper again, at least. Still haven't managed to actually produce enough volume for it to count as 'talking', but hey, at this point, I'll take what I can get.
That, however, does not go for a coughing fit that disallows me to breathe. D<
Now, obviously, I'm fine, what with typing here and all. Somewhat tired, but what the fuck, man. XD That was not funny. XD
It's okay, though, I don't tend to panic anyway, but it got a little annoying towards the end, there. Fucking hurts to breathe again, and I'm tanking up on tea. Stupid throat. Stupid cold. I should be over my cold by now, damnit, but no, it's still in there, still making a nuisance of itself.
I'm kind of glad nobody was there to see it, though. XD I'm sure I looked absolutely pathetic, kneeling on the ground and holding myself up with the doorpost while attempting to breathe inbetween my coughing fit. XD
Fuck, but that sound on inhalation was stupid. XD;
And since there appears to be no way for me to ever tell you people 'oh, by the way! Something happened! 8D' without you going "O.O" followed by "^_^;;;" I've decided to just stop bothering trying to fix it up all pretty like and ease in for landing. Three-pointer landings just don't work out for me, so I'm crashing this space-ship called Update into that dock. 8D RAMMING SPEED AHEAD!
TL;DR: It sucked, it bugged me, but it's over now and I have resumed normal - insofar as that counts these days - respiratory behaviour. I am considering mentioning it to my parents later, and seeing if they think that maybe I should consider another doctor's visit, just in case.
For now, I think I'm going to go chill on the couch for a little bit. I'm tired. XD; |
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| ICT and "30.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot." |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|06:32 pm] |
So, apparently, someone did some 'research' and posted the following article in Computable.
It's in Dutch.
Basic premise; GIRLS DON'T LIKE ICT.
A further undefined/randomly selected group, the majority of which are students of an equally undefined age-group, and, not to mention, choice of career to BEGIN WITH, as well as some poor, unfortunate teachers and parents were given an even further undefined set of questions.
Almost 60% of the FEMALE part of the QUERIED GROUP apparently thinks that ICT is difficult. Similarly, 35% of the females of this same (entire, as far as I can tell) group, does not know how to get their internet going again, should it fall off.
The number of undefined schools that participated in this project in the Netherlands? THREE.
Oh, boy, that sure paints a realistic picture of what to expect of the Dutch population.
Also, they go on, in a tone that suggests this is shocking news, that 70% of the females of this same group know nothing of Linux. They do not specify whether they mean that the females had not heard of this before, or are simply unfamiliar with the OS.
How many Windows users are familiar with the Mac OS? I mean, REALLY.
The least they could do was add the equivalent number of men of this equally undefined/randomly selected group who knew nothing of Linux. Or how to powercycle a fucking modem.
Don't mind me. I'm on anti-biotics, and they make me grouchy.
But COME ON.
Can't they at least try to be useful? It doesn't even state what the directions of the schools investigated were. If you're asking a school-teacher education, of COURSE there's going to be a larger number of people who DON'T GIVE A SHIT.
Oh, and let's not forget about the teachers! Because everybody knows that scatter-brained German language teachers know everything about computers!
Because, obviously, THAT'S IN THEIR CURRICULUM.
Bottomline: the no-doubt impeccably accurate research that they failed to link in their entire fucking article says; "WE NEED MORE RESEARCH TO DETERMINE WHY WOMEN DON'T LIKE ICT."
No, we fucking don't.
What we need are people with BRAINS, who don't post NONSENSICAL PIECES OF USELESS INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET.
.. *happy little sigh* I feel better now. The internet is still full of shit, but at least I vomited out the part that bugged me the most right now..
(*The term 'gURLTech' was, as far as I'm aware, created by Alternate Reality: Your home base for cynical reviews and crappy job thoughts in the ICT.) |
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| Anti-biotics |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|11:22 am] |
Woopti-friggen-do.
I have a cold.
But I also have a sore throat to go with it.
So I went to the doctor's this morning for a quick look and was prescribed some medicine.
BOOH, ANTIBIOTICS.
They're those stupid capsules. XD With my throat, it takes some doing actually swallowing them, and so far, it only seems to work when I'm standing. Doc asked me if I was allergic. I GUESS I'LL FIND OUT.
I'll probably suffer some side effects, based on the fact that I'm fucking underweight, but whatever.
The phone rang just now, I noted down the time and number, because, lol, what's the use of picking up when you've got no voice?
Joy, though! Around one o'clock or something, there'll be Dukes of Hazzard re-runs on tv! Happy~.
Dunno about Friday, to be honest. Was supposed to go out and go to a movie (Transformers! Robots in disguise!) with Bochan and Ka-chan. I mean, sure I have a cold, but what're a couple of germs between friends?
XD I suppose Ka-chan would have something to say about that..
But yar. I guess it depends on how I feel and how sniffly I am. Oh, and how the capsules affect me, hehe.
Bum faggotry if I've gotta cancel though. D |
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